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U.S. Clash
Ridgway Asks Approval
Of Defense Plan Funds
PARIS, Dec. 15 (R)—American demands for more fighting
strength in Europe collided head on at the North Atlantic Treaty
Conference today with the European disposition to take it easier.
American Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of European
forces of NATO, walked into the 1952 review meeting and asked
firmly for quick ' aproval of a 428 million dollar defense building
program. He got a soft response.
Lord Ismail, NATO secretary-general, told correspondents after
the meeting that it was quita possible no building program would
be approved this session despite
the wishes of Ridgway and his
staff to get it going with the first
good weather.
Need Stronger Forces
Lord Ismay said possibly some
of the more urgent requests might
be approved but he felt gener
ally that action on it would be
deferred to later meetings.
This afternoon's meeting was
secret and Lord Ismay declined
to say what Ridgway had asked,
but sources close to the general
said he was prepared to make "a
strong speech." Only last week
the SHAPE commander said the
need for stronger forces was as
great now as it ever had been and
Europe now was not adequately
defended against possible Russian
invasion.
37 Aboard
Grounded
Navy Ship
LEGHORN, Italy, Dec. 15 (11:1
Thirty seven crewman of the U.S.
Navy refrigerator ship Grommet
Reefer huddled precariously to
night in the severed stern of their
ship as wind and waves pounded
it on the rocks 200 yards off shore.
The ship's first engineer, Karl
F. Treudler, of Bellaire, N.Y., said
the bulk of the crew still aboard
had reported by radio they were
"all okay." Treudler was one of
only three rescued by breeches
buoy from 'the Grommet before
the buoy cable snapped.
Treudler said the stranded crew
men reported they were holding
up well.
Stern Holds
"Some of them have even gone
to their bunks to try to catch some
rest, they said," Treudler report
ed.
"They are pretty worn out. They
reported the engine room was still
perfectly dry and the stern was
holding together well." -
Winds of gale force drove the
3800 ton ship aground as she was
trying to tie up at a Leghorn pier
early today. Jagged rocks on
which the vessel piled up sliced
through the hull.
The listing of the severed stern
and a 60 mile an hour wind snap
ped the rescue cable extending
to the shore. About 75 U.S. sailors
tonight were trying to shake a
second cable out to the ship so
rescue operations could be re
sumed. The rescue crews ashore
had been cut down because the
over-abundance of manpower was
slowing down operations.
Situation "Grave"
The rough seas quieted slightly,
giving hope of a less difficult
rescue for those remaining aboard.
When effor t s to bring the
stranded crewmen in got under
way, their situation was described
by Capt. A. F. White, senior U.S.
Naval officer at the American sup
ply base here, as "desperate and
grave." Even the n, however,
White expressed the hope they
would be rescued "barring catas
trophe."
At that time, the barometer fell
to its lowest mark here in two
years, and the winds fiercely
lashed the seas and the teetering
ship's stern.
The stern was surrounded by gi
ant crests of spray thrown up by
the waves smashing against it. In
contrast to its desperate predica
ment, the ship was lighted up like
a pleasure cruiser with light pour
ing from every porthole.
Since the generator was still
working, the captain apparently
had ordered all lights on to help
rescue operations.
Striking Pupils Win
Return of Administrator
CARBONDALE, Pa., Dec. 15 OP)
Some 400 striking pupils at Ben
jamin Franklin High School in
Carbdndale are back at their desks
today. So is James St. Ledger, as
sistant principal, whose two-day
suspension prompted the walkout
of students.
The 400 pupils walked out last
Monday when St. Ledger refused
to return to duty until the .school
board cleared him of charges that
he was neglecting his work as di
rector of student council pro
grams.
The Cabondale school board will
consider the dispute further at a
meeting Saturday.
Asks Communist Defeat
Announcement was made in
London today that the United
States had ordered 90 million dol
' lars worth of Centurion tanks,
spare parts, and ammunition from
Britain for use by NATO forces.
The tanks, weighing 50 tons and
in use now in Korea by British
troops, eventually will go to the
Netherlands and Denmark. The
order was placed under the U.S.
Mutual Security Program.
Premier Alcide de Gasperi of
Italy brought a storm of applause
from the meeting with a demand
that NATO turn all its forces of
propaganda, economics, and poli
tical pressure to beat back com
munism in the member nations.
Military solidarity, he said, is
only part of NATO's goal. The
nations must fight with other
weapons, he said, against -"the
policy of systematic penetration
and erosion pursued by the So
viet Union, a policy openly for
mulated and extolled by Marshal
Stalin in his recent speech before
the Communist congress of the
USSR."
Top. Court Rules
Korean War Legal
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 c , P)—
The Supreme Court today turned
a deaf ear to a contention that
the Korean War is unconstitu
tional.
It did so in refusing to inter
vene in the case of Stanley Dale
Sydow who was sentenced to
three years - imprisonment for re
fusing to report for induction into
the armed forces.
Sydow asked the high tribunal
to issue a writ of habeas corpus
releasing him from the county
jail in Omaha. His request was
filed by Atty. Eyke Farmer of
Nashville, Tenn.
Mayor Named
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (M
The mayor of- - Hoboken, N.J.,
was described today as a pow
er behind the New Jersey
waterfrOnt—a jungle of shake
down artists, loan sharks, and
strongarm men.
Witnesses before a state crime
hearing testified that Mayor'Fred
N. de Sapio and his police and
fire commissioner, Michael Bor
elli, swept longshoremen from the
docks and paid off political pals
with their jobs.
Their straw boss on the piers,
according to the testimony, was
Edward J. Florio, 57, a shifty,
shady official of the AFL Inter
national Longshoremen' Associa
tion. He is president of a New
Jersey ILA local.
De Sapio, in his turn on the
witness stand, blustered and
fumed but firmly insisted he
didn't use the docks as a dumping
ground to pay off political debts.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PEIsTIiSYLV4NIA
GOP Swamped
With Job Pleas
WASHINGTON, Dec. .15 (fP)—
Pennsylvania's Republican con
gressmen are being swamped with
bids for jobs. .
Some of the applicants appar
ently believe that the Eisen
hower administration already is in
power.
They want to come to Washing
ton at once and start work.
Some of the writers know ex
actly what they want and don't
mince words asking for it. Others
just want a job. They don't care
what kind. They don't even indi
cate in their letters whether
they're blacksmiths or lawyers.
Thus far no plan has been
worked out among Pennsylvania's
GOP senators and House members
for co-ordinating r e q u e s t s and
recommendations.
Acheson, Eden
Discuss Iranian
Oil Deadlock
_ PARIS, Dec. 15 (W) —Brit i s h
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
and U.S. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson discussed today an 11th
hour move by President Truman's
administration to break the Anglo-
Iranian oil deadlock. „
The American proposals were
said to be based on two board
principles:
1. That the Anglo-Iranian Oil
Company AIOC be compensated
for the loss of its more than one
billion dollar assets in Iran
through some international body,
possibly the World Bank which
presumably would need to raise
money especially for that purpose.
2. That the major American oil
companies, the A I 0 Cand the
Iranian National Oil Voard join
together in a new group to run
the oil industry in Iran and mar
ket its output.
Electors Make
Vote Official
HARRISBURG, Dec. 15 (JP)—
Pennsylvania's Electoral College
today formalized the Eisenhower-
Nixon sweep in the Nov. 4 gen
eral election.•
It was the first time in 24 years
that the state GOP electoral vote
went for a winning presidential
candidate. Eisenhower carried the
popular vote by 269,000 in Penn
sylvania.
The ceremony was heavy with
tradition that extends back to the
time when Pennsylvania was one
of the founding 13 colonies.
Almost simultaneously, elector
al colleges in all the states voted
for the presidential candidates
who won the popular,yote in their
respective states. The result was
442 for Eisenhower and 89 for
Gov. Adlai Stevenson, defeated
Democratic nominee.
His testimony backed and filled
so much that Crime Commission
Chairman Joseph M. Proskauer
finally snorted in disgust: "And
you're the mayor of Hoboken."
At another point, de Sapio
barked angrily: "Let's get our=
selves straight. I didn't come here
to be ridiculed by the chairman
or anyone else."
"Let's answer the questions,"
Commissioner Ignatius Wilkinson
reprimanded • him, "not make
speeches."
De Sapio, admitted knowing
Florio but testified he had "no
direct connection with me per
sonally, politically, or otherwise."
The Crime Commission, after a
five day recess, resumed hearings
into waterfront rackets that cost
New York's $7 billion a year ship
ping industry $350 million a year
in losses.
As the spotlight shifted to New
Jersey, Florio emerged as an al
leged shakedown expert who took
in Waterfront Rackets
on NATO
U.S. Refuses
Compromise
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 15 (/P)—The United States to
night laid down a "no compromise" policy on a Korean truce and
served notice it cannot see any purpose in sending fresh plans to
the Reds for settling the prisoner of war issue.
"The responsibility for whether there shall be peace in Korea
clearly lies with the Chinese Communists and North Korea authori-
ties and their supporters," the
State Department said in an offi
cial statement after Red China
rejected the UN plan for ending
the Korean War.
Their study was being made
against the background of U.S.
President-elect Eis e n h ow e r 's
statement on Korea that "we must
go ahead and do things that in
duce the others to want peace
also."
Britain Backs U.S.
A British spokesman quickly
followed with a statement that
the Chinese refusal "raises serious
problems which will require care
ful consideration by her majesty's
government."
He promised that Britain will
continue to stand by the U.S. in
Korea in maintaining issues of
principle, with the hope that
"some way around this deadlock"
can be found.
France called the answer "de
structive of hope."
The United States statement
came as UN delegates studied
carefully the blunt rejection by
Red China of the UN Assembly's
Korean peace plan and Peiping's
stiff counter proposals.
The terms laid down by the Chi
nese Reds are identical to those
put forward earlier by Russia's
Andrei Y. Vishinsky and rejected
by the Assembly in a one sided
vote.
The U. S. said it regretted the
Chinese Communists "flouted" the
views of the Assembly and again
rejected peace in Korea.
Offer Alternatives
"The United States government
reaffirms its determination to con
tinue to fulfill its responsibilities
in Korea," the U. S. statement
added. It continued: ". . . There
can be no compromise with the
basic humanitarian principles con
tained in the resolution of the
General Assembly of Dec. 3, 1952.
If the Communists accept these
basic United Nations principles,
the proposals now outstanding
pr ovi d e numerous alternative
methods for settling the question
of prisoners of war.
Until the Communists accept
these basic United Nations prin
ciples, the United States govern
ment cannot see what useful pur
pose will be served by having the
United Natiom, propose to the
Communists still other plans for
implementing these proposals."
Brink Case ‘Probe On
BOSTON, Dec. 15 (JP)—Defense
counsel tonight summoned two
FBI agents as witnesses to appear
tomorrow at the contempt arraign
ment of a Boston couple in a
federal grand jury investigation
of the unsolved $1,219,000 Brink's
holdup.
shipping and stevedoring firms
for $lO,OOO in four years. He cur
rently is awaiting trial on perjury
charges growing out of a grand
jury probe of waterfront rackets.
Florio was pictured as a swag
gering would-be strong man who
broke down and blubbered once
when his life was in danger at the
hands of his own longshoremen.
One witness, Ant hony Tony
Mike de Vincenzo, testified he lost
his Jersey dock job in 1950 be
cause he bucked Florio and Fire
Commissioner Borelli on a payroll
faking racket, even though he is
a cousin of Borelli.
Said de Vincenzo, who admitted
nursing a hatred for Florio: "You
can't get a Job until you see Bor
elli and he sends you to Florio.7
"You can't get a job?" he was
asked.
"That's correct," replied de Vin
cenzo, who came to the hearing
under a police guard because he
said his life was threatened.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER. ip, 1952
Truce
in UN
Government
Suspends
Diplomat
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (ilk--,
The State Department today sus
pended career diplomat John Car
ter Vincent after a government
board found "there is - reasonable
doubt as to his loyalty."
The action is subject to review
by President Truman and Secre
tary of State Acheson.
At the same time, the depart
ment announced that the U.S.
Civil Service Commission's Loy
alty Review Board has found "no
reasonable doubt about the loy
alty" of John Paton Davies Jr.,
another key State Department ca
reer officer,
Both Vincent and Davies have
figured in "repeated inquiries into
charges of Communist infiltration
into the government.
The department announced that
Vincent, new U.S. minister at
Tangier, Morocco, has been sum
moned home.
The Loyalty Review Board of
the Civil Service Commission rec
ommended that Vincent be fired,
the department said.
The department only suspended
Vincent, however, and announced
that President Truman will dis
cuss the case with Secretary of
State Acheson when Acheson re
turns from the NATO Conference
at Paris this weekend.
Davies is deputy director of
the Office of Political Affairs in
the office of the U.S. high com
missioner for Germany, at Bonn.
Increases Face
New Stabilizers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (JP)
The government put its wage con
trols program in the hands of a
new Wage Stabilization Commit
tee today and Chairman Charles
C. Killingsworth promised fast
action on a backlog of 12,000 pay
increases awaiting approval.
"We will make every effort to
get the maximum number of
cases out before Christmas," Kil
lingsworth told reporters.
He said the new Wage Stabili
zation Committee, WSC, was sym
pathetic with desires of workers
to get their pay increases before
the holidays, and with the . year
end tax problems of many em
ployers.
The WSC was formed today by
Economic Stabilizer Roger L. Put
nam to keep the pay controls pro
gram going in view of the resig
nation of all seven industry mem
bers from the Wage Stabilization
Board.
The industrymen quit in pro
test against President Truman's
action in reversing the WSB on a
coal miners pay increase which
the WSB had partly disallowed.
Truman okayed the full amount.
of $1.90 a day. ,
Snow, Ice Hit State
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 15 (P)—
Snow mixed with cold winds sent
the mercury plunging to the low
20s in Western Pennsylvania to
day and made highway travel
dangerous.
Ice and snow covered the Penn
sylvania Turnpike from the But
ler interchange to the Allegheny
tunnel and also a four mile stretch
between Donegal and Somerset.
The cold wave will continue to-•
night and tomorrow.